I update www.cfhappens.com with all my health updates and I totally forget to update here. I will get better at updating here!! Here is the last 6 months...
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Lung Transplant Evaluation Testing
My regular CF doctor wanted me to be seen by my transplant hospital (Barnes-Jewish in St. Louis, MO) because I've had 2 hospital admissions this year and my...
Continue Reading »IV time yet again
I had been having back lung pain for 2 weeks as of April 26th so I called my nurse to ask for a chest xray to make sure...
Continue Reading »Sick clinic appointment on 2/14/20
I haven't been feeling good since the 1st. My husband also caught whatever it was but got over it pretty quickly. I however still don't feel well. I...
Continue Reading »Dolewite fundraiser
The fundraiser was a success! Thank you to everyone that was able to come out and celebrate my 40th birthday. Unfortunately we came home and we're both sick....
Continue Reading »CF Clinic 1/9/20 Update
I had CF Clinic yesterday. I'm holding steady lung function wise at 37%. I did start a new CF med called Trikafta. It was just FDA approved in...
Continue Reading »Clinic Update
Today was CF clinic day. It was my normal 3 month check up that turned into a hospital/IV follow up. It seems to happen that way most of...
Continue Reading »Home sweet home!
I got home around noon today from the hospital which is record time for a release. It helped that I didn’t have to wait for my IV antibiotics...
Continue Reading »Going inpatient
I have left a message with my nurse to say I would like to be admitted tomorrow. Not that I would "like" to because who are we kidding,...
Continue Reading »Still not feeling well
Today I had a check up since I'm not feeling better after 6 days of IV antibiotics. My lung function was down again to .88L/31% FEV1. I started...
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